Gustave Lanctot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gustave Lanctot

Canadian historian

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1883

Place of Birth: Saint-Constant, Quebec, Canada

Date of Death: 02-Feb-1975

Profession: writer, historian, archivist, journalist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Gustave Lanctot

  • Gustave Lanctot, , also spelled Gustave Lanctôt, (5 July 1883 – 2 February 1975) was a Canadian historian and archivist. Born in Saint-Constant, Quebec, he studied law at Université de Montréal and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1907.
  • A Rhodes Scholar, he studied political science and history from 1909 to 1911 while at Oxford University.
  • He was also a member of the Oxford Canadians ice hockey team.
  • In 1912, he joined the National Archives of Canada.
  • During World War I, he served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. After the war, he received a Ph.D.
  • from the Sorbonne and later returned to the National Archives eventually becoming Dominion Archivist from 1937 to 1948.
  • He also taught at the University of Ottawa. A historian, he wrote many books including L'Administration de la Nouvelle-France (1929), Le Canada d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (1934), Montréal au temps de la Nouvelle-France, 1642-1760 (1942), Trois ans de guerre, 1939-1942 (1943), L'Oeuvre de la France en Amérique du Nord (1951), Histoire du Canada (winner of the 1963 Governor General's Award for French language non-fiction), Le Canada et la Révolution américaine (1965) et Montréal sous Maisonneuve, 1947-1965 (1966).
  • He also was a historical advisor on eight Canadian films produced from 1961 to 1964. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1926, was awarded the J.
  • B.
  • Tyrrell Historical Medal, and was its president from 1948 to 1949.
  • On July 6, 1967, he was one of the first people to be made an Officer of the Order of Canada (then called a Service Medal).
  • The citation read "Renowned historian whose "Histoire du Canada" marks the culmination of a life devoted to knowledge of Canada's past".
  • He also was made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur.

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